One is that Redactica is a special case because there's no real framework for it within LJ-based fandom. I say that because there most definitely is a fan-editing culture for movies elsewhere on the net which I know a very little bit about, but more than that, I also come from Star Wars fandom which is what made fan editing famous, where the most ambitious fan edits exist, and also the only fandom that has an actual fan film subculture (as opposed to one or two fan films). SW also has an...interesting attitude towards canon from George Lucas.
So like, in general reaction to this project has been good, I think (I hope - I hope there aren't droves of people out there afraid I'm going to break into their house in the night and replace their 4.5 box sets!) so obviously I'm not coming at this from an indecipherable angle. But that may add to the fact it didn't occur to me that this would be seen as more inflammatory than simply declaring that I would be re-writing it.
It also makes me wonder if, when fan fiction was either new, or at least nowhere near as widely known and accepted, if people ever felt threatened by that? If it really is just the new issue?
I also think that the separation of media is a big deal. This feels more like watching an episode than either reading a story or watching a vid does. Which again, I think, adds to the feel that I'm making a bald-faced attempt to replace the real show. Which, like, okay I am. But at the same time, I can't enforce that on anyone, and it's no stronger or different a thing than when people write their own personal canons?
So anyway, yeah that's a long way of saying that whatever and whyever they are, the issues about Redactica raised here are not the issues of vidding, although there's crossover.
As to the issues of actual vidding, to stop this comment from becoming monolithic, I will head over and respond on your recent entry.
Though I will say that I think most of the BDVs left BSG fandom when I was a babyvidder and like, I had a really weird year and vidded a ridiculous amount, and became one of the most prolific BSG Vidders by...accidental default? Cus everyone else had left?
I also think that part of what you're experiencing here is the disconnect between vidding in a fandom and vidding as a fandom, but I will go into more detail over in your LJ in a minute.
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One is that Redactica is a special case because there's no real framework for it within LJ-based fandom. I say that because there most definitely is a fan-editing culture for movies elsewhere on the net which I know a very little bit about, but more than that, I also come from Star Wars fandom which is what made fan editing famous, where the most ambitious fan edits exist, and also the only fandom that has an actual fan film subculture (as opposed to one or two fan films). SW also has an...interesting attitude towards canon from George Lucas.
So like, in general reaction to this project has been good, I think (I hope - I hope there aren't droves of people out there afraid I'm going to break into their house in the night and replace their 4.5 box sets!) so obviously I'm not coming at this from an indecipherable angle. But that may add to the fact it didn't occur to me that this would be seen as more inflammatory than simply declaring that I would be re-writing it.
It also makes me wonder if, when fan fiction was either new, or at least nowhere near as widely known and accepted, if people ever felt threatened by that? If it really is just the new issue?
I also think that the separation of media is a big deal. This feels more like watching an episode than either reading a story or watching a vid does. Which again, I think, adds to the feel that I'm making a bald-faced attempt to replace the real show. Which, like, okay I am. But at the same time, I can't enforce that on anyone, and it's no stronger or different a thing than when people write their own personal canons?
So anyway, yeah that's a long way of saying that whatever and whyever they are, the issues about Redactica raised here are not the issues of vidding, although there's crossover.
As to the issues of actual vidding, to stop this comment from becoming monolithic, I will head over and respond on your recent entry.
Though I will say that I think most of the BDVs left BSG fandom when I was a babyvidder and like, I had a really weird year and vidded a ridiculous amount, and became one of the most prolific BSG Vidders by...accidental default? Cus everyone else had left?
I also think that part of what you're experiencing here is the disconnect between vidding in a fandom and vidding as a fandom, but I will go into more detail over in your LJ in a minute.